Building Capacity by Strengthening Pathways and Recruitment Strategies for Future STEM Teachers through a Community College and University Partnership

通过社区学院和大学的合作伙伴关系，加强未来 STEM 教师的途径和招聘策略，进行能力建设

• 批准号: 2243471
• 负责人: German Moreno
• 金额: $ 12.5万
• 依托单位: Dona Ana Branch Community College
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2023-04-01 至 2024-03-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2243471&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Building; Capacity; Strengthening; Pathways; Recruitment

The project aims to serve the national need of building capacity to address the challenge of teacher shortages in high-need school districts particularly in STEM areas. The intention of this proposal is to develop clear pathways from the community college into the main university campus, and to develop an understanding of student perceptions about STEM and the teaching profession to better recruit and prepare STEM teachers. The intended collaboration between Dona Ana Community College (DACC) and New Mexico State University (NMSU) will be essential for building sustainable STEM educator pathways. These partners will work together to create practices that address what STEM undergraduates need to become effective STEM teachers. To accomplish these aims, both institutions will develop STEM degree concentrations to support a future Noyce Track 1 proposal. Additionally, data analysis aimed at understanding STEM student interest in simultaneously pursuing a major in a STEM discipline and a minor in Secondary Education at both institutions will be used to develop a recruitment plan for Noyce Scholars. As one of six minority-as-majority states, New Mexico’s schooling environment exhibits the complex educational, cultural, and economic challenges occurring throughout the United States. With NMSU located within three school districts along the US-Mexico border and producing only a small number of mathematics or science pre-service teachers, this region echos the national declining trend in teacher production. At the same time, there is a state-wide need for STEM prepared employees in military, space, and agriculturally based industries. This project at Dona Ana Community College includes a partnership with New Mexico State University. Project goals include the development of teacher education pathways that allow STEM majors to minor in Education, and the development of a recruitment plan. We will draw on research about the importance of teachers having high levels of content and pedagogical knowledge and intend on centering our recruitment plans on the needs of students from underrepresented minority groups given the demographics of the students at both institutions. Additionally, we will draw on approaches to collaboration that foster organizational boundary-spanning activities that lead to new inter-institutional norms. We will collect data from students through survey research about levels of interest in STEM teaching to design a recruitment plan. This project will allow both institutions to prepare teachers so they can successfully prepare their students for STEM learning despite strained socio-economic supports. Successful strategies implemented and documented from this project can be a model for replication at similar institutions. The independent evaluation approach for this capacity-building project, conducted by the Southwest Outreach Academic Research Evaluation and Policy Center, will be both formative and summative. Project outcomes will be disseminated through local, state, and national conferences. This Capacity Building project is supported through the Robert Noyce Teacher Scholarship Program (Noyce). The Noyce program supports talented STEM undergraduate majors and professionals to become effective K-12 STEM teachers and experienced, exemplary K-12 teachers to become STEM master teachers in high-need school districts. It also supports research on the effectiveness and retention of K-12 STEM teachers in high-need school districts.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

该项目旨在满足国家建立能力的需求，以应对高需求学区的教师短缺挑战，尤其是在STEM地区。该建议的目的是发展从社区学院到大学主要校园的清晰途径，并培养对学生对STEM和教学专业的看法的理解，以更好地招募和准备STEM教师。 DONA ANA社区学院（DACC）与新墨西哥州立大学（NMSU）之间的预期合作对于建立可持续的STEM教育途径至关重要。这些合作伙伴将共同努力，创造实践，以解决茎本科生成为有效的STEM教师所需的方法。为了实现这些目标，这两个机构都将开发茎学位的浓度，以支持未来的Noyce Track 1提案。此外，旨在理解STEM学生对STEM学科的专业的兴趣和两种机构中学教育的训练的数据分析将用于制定Noyce Scholars的招聘计划。作为少数少数族裔的国家之一，新墨西哥州的教育环境在美国都表现出复杂的教育，文化和经济挑战。 NMSU位于美国 - 墨西哥边境的三个学区内，仅生产少数数学或科学前教师，该地区与教师生产的国家趋势下降。同时，在全州范围内需要在军事，太空和基于农业的行业中准备的STEM准备员工。 Dona Ana社区学院的该项目包括与新墨西哥州立大学的合作伙伴关系。项目目标包括发展教师教育途径，使STEM专业的教育少，以及制定招聘计划。我们将研究有关教师具有高水平的内容和教学知识的重要性，并意图将我们的招聘计划集中在这两个机构中学生的人口统计学者的人口统计学者，以少数群体不足的少数群体的需求。此外，我们将借鉴协作的方法，从而促进组织边界边界的活动，从而导致新的机构间规范。我们将通过调查研究从学生那里收集有关STEM教学兴趣水平的调查研究，以设计招聘计划。该项目将允许两个机构为教师做好准备，以便他们可以成功地为学生为STEM学习目的地的社会经济支持做好准备。从该项目实施和记录的成功策略可以成为类似机构复制的模型。西南外展学术研究评估和政策中心进行的该能力建设项目的独立评估方法将是形成性和总结性的。项目成果将通过地方，州和国家会议进行传播。罗伯特·诺伊斯（Robert Noyce）教师奖学金计划（NOYCE）支持该能力建设项目。 NOYCE计划支持有才华的STEM本科专业和专业人士成为有效的K-12 STEM老师，并经验丰富的K-12老师，成为高需求学区的STEM大师教师。它还支持对高需求学区K-12 STEM教师的有效性和保留的研究。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并通过使用基金会的知识分子优点和更广泛的影响审查标准来评估被认为是宝贵的支持。